skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is the largest company in the world so no, their “indignation” over having a competitor is never justified.

You are also assuming that only Google benefited from that relationship which is wrong.

Google is a software and services company and in an iPhone world Apple would decide how and when these services are presented to users, if they are presented at all. That is an unacceptable amount of risk as Apple had a disproportionate amount of leverage in that arrangement.
That would make too much sense and doesn't fit into the us versus them worldview that Steve so elegantly espoused at his company and to his flock.
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"Foreman" has nothing to do with being an thought leader, they're just the person selected to interact directly with the judge. In the jury I was on, he also moderated the discussion when it got too heated. But he deliberately avoided giving his opinion until after everyone else had spoken and tried not to have any more influence than any other juror.

(That didn't keep the jury from making a decision I disagree with, but I certainly don't blame the foreman.)
Point taken, you are right that the internet predates the World Wide Web, but as you say that resulted from the work of universities, darpa etc. The "etc" in this case is not to be neglected. While DARPA was working on ARPANET, others were working on other precursors of the modern day Internet such as X.25, CYCLADES etc. that greatly contributed to the development of critical components such as TCP/IP. The Internet certainly owes a lot to American research and military funding, but there is no such thing as an "American Internet".

Also, Usenet, email etc. are just as little "the Internet" as the world wide web is. They are all services that run on top of the Internet (the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite).
In Vietnam, and in many countries in the developing world, mobile phone users have multiple sim cards to take advantage of competitive rates and to call friends/family on network. Calls to mobiles using the same operator are often significantly cheaper. Many phones (smartphones included) released in the developing world even have multi-sim card ports.
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And it puts in you great company with (for example) Mussolini, who started shaving his head when his hair began to thin.
Well. The likeliest thing is that there is no "middle man fucking with them". The likeliest thing, since it's an iOS app posting to their API, is that they're introspecting a client-side object to get the values they care about. And that they're blacklisting values they know they don't want, rather than whitelisting values they know they do want.

Which meant that when a new property showed up their app blindly submitted it to their web API, and their web API blindly accepted it because it was doing mass assignment, and that's when the API broke.

Which really just hammers home the point people have been trying to get you to see, which is that these types of idioms -- mass assignment, blind trust of client-supplied data, blacklisting instead of whitelisting -- are really serious problems that should not be encouraged, and should not be swept under the rug.
Completely agree. I don't mind if they lock-down the apps to be from the store only by default, like Android has done it from day one, or the new Mac OS versions have started doing, as long as you're still going to allow users to side-load any apps they want. I'll never choose a platform that doesn't at the very least give the option to install from other sources than the ones approved by the OS maker.

This is why the whole new Windows 8 direction scares me, too. For now at least, they are allowing desktop apps on Windows 8, but on Windows RT, Microsoft is just as bad as Apple with iOS. They won't allow you to sideload any apps. So if you want to use an app that wasn't approved by Microsoft, you'll have to jailbreak the Windows RT device. Sames goes for WP7/WP8.
Pretend you are Ford Motor Company. You've had a great, mutually beneficial relationship with Firestone Tires for many years. But Firestone Tires decides to get into the car making business. Now they design cars in direct competition with yours, they give away designs for free, and occasionally they even have their designs manufactured and sell the cars for profit.

Now would you expect Ford to continue to buy tires from Firestone?
Blockchain.info's wallet is very good. They store your private key encrypted and can only be decrypted client side with your password. They'll also email your encrypted wallet backups when your wallet changes.
It was great while it lasted!
Before HN, before Digg, before any kind of social networking or all encompassing tech news sites, there was Slashdot. I still remember when one of the first questions to ask a fellow programmer was, "You on Slashdot? What's your number?"
I don’t see it. I think no one is arguing that the App Store is a free market – but I’m not sure how it’s possible to jump from that to Apple being anti-competitve. Why has the App Store be a free market for Apple to not be anti-competitive?
Yes, but what are ways it is possible to break into a car?

Break a window (drawback: sets off a car alarm)

Duplicate or steal the a key (drawback: requires original key)

Steal car when open (drawback: not many people leave there car open)

How could you break in a Lockitron (or prevent someone from using it)?

Steal a persons phone (much easier than stealing a key. A phone is taken out more often than a set of keys)

Cut telephone wires for wi-fi (a little extreme, but possible)

Hack there password.

Besides, how much motion does it require to open a lock with a key? I guess it makes sense to use it to unlock or lock your house remotely, but when have you been in that kind of situation? If someone needs a key, just give them a copy.
You do not know how much (if anything) Google was charging Apple for API access or if it increased when they generally increased the pricing. They almost certainly got a better deal than general users of the API because they are Apple and have a massive user base. We do know that Apple and Google had a contract in place but beyond that we don't know anything.

Furthermore, Apple does not get their data from "Apple Maps". They pay to license it from TomTom and other companies (though they do, of course, also produce data of their own that gets combined with the third-party sources to produce the aggregation that is Apple Maps).

I don't know how much you meant by "millions of dollars" but it was probably substantially less than the $267 million Apple paid to acquire C3 Technologies to add 3D maps to their offering.

Apple's decision was a great long term decision for them but it did hurt users in the short term (hence Cook's apology).
Actually, quite to the contrary, I think it's more semantic. What you probably don't know is that `Foo#bar` is the way of describing an instance method `bar` in class `Foo` and `Foo.bar` is a class method. RSpec's `describe` announces what unit of code you're writing specs for and `context` (although functionally equivalent to `describe`) is used to enumerate the different contexts in which you're going to test a method.

A typical spec looks like this:

describe Foo do
describe "#bar" do
# specs for Foo#bar ...
end

describe ".baz" do
# specs for Foo.baz ...
end
end

The reason I say that using the method names for `describe` is more semantic is because it says exactly what you're describing. Also, as a side note, RSpec is smart enough to realize that "#bar" or ".baz" are referring to methods. In the above example, a spec for `Foo#bar` would be described like this: "Foo#bar should return 42". That's the description that is printed out when the spec fails or if you use a long-form output formatter.
Groklaw coverage is a convenient place for the latest links, but their commentary is beyond biased. They attempt to color what you're about to read.

Here's a particularly obvious example:

Commentary:

Hogan did not mention the case brought against him by Seagate in voir dire, significantly enough, even though he was specifically asked by the judge, as were all the prospective jurors, to list all cases any of them was ever involved in as a witness or a party. Hogan told Reuters (see 2012 [PDF]) that he wasn't asked about all cases. But he was, as you can see for yourself in the transcript [PDF] of the voir dire.

No, Hogan was not "specifically asked ... to list all cases" according either Samsung's filing or the linked transcript.

At least Samsung's filing gets it right:

Asked by the Court whether “you or a family member or someone very close to you [has] ever been involved in a lawsuit, either as a plaintiff, a defendant, or as a witness?” he disclosed one such lawsuit but failed to disclose two others...

Sorry, Groklaw, Hogan was not "specifically" asked to "list all" cases. The actual question, including sentences before and after for context (all caps in transcript):

LET'S CONTINUE WITH THE QUESTIONS. THE NEXT QUESTION IS, HAVE YOU OR A FAMILY MEMBER OR SOMEONE VERY CLOSE TO YOU EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN A LAWSUIT, EITHER AS A PLAINTIFF, A DEFENDANT, OR AS A WITNESS? LET'S SEE. ON THE FIRST ROW, WHO WOULD RAISE THEIR HAND TO THAT QUESTION?
ALL RIGHT. LET'S GO TO MR. HOGAN.

The question "specifically" asks about the singular, "a lawsuit". Note the phrase "who would raise their hand to that?" It's a binary question.

At the time of the question, it wasn't about patents, it was to determine if jurors have encountered the court system as a participant, yes or no. The followup questions did drill into the nature of the case Hogan mentioned, but the judge didn't follow up further because that wasn't the purpose of the original question.

Skipping down in the transcript a bit, the judge tells us the purpose of the "have you been involved in a lawsuit" question:

WE'LL TALK FURTHER ABOUT WHO'S BEEN ON JURY DUTY, BUT THERE ARE DEFINITELY DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, STANDARDS OF PROOF IN DIFFERENT CASES, AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE -- YOU ALL HAD CIVIL CASES, SO I WOULD ASSUME THAT YOU ALSO HAD, YOU KNOW, PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE. DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?

This makes it clear the question wasn't how many cases the juror was involved in, but whether the juror had been exposed to concepts around rule of law in different types of cases. The judge continues:

AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT LATER ON, BUT IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF CASES, THERE MAY BE DIFFERENT STANDARDS OF PROOF, AND ALSO THE LAW MAY HAVE CHANGED SINCE WHENEVER YOU WERE A LITIGANT. SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT BOTH MR. HOGAN, AND MS. ROUGIERI, THAT YOU WOULD APPLY THE LAW AS I INSTRUCT YOU AND NOT BASED ON YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW BASED ON YOUR OWN CASES.

So no, Hogan was responsive and accurate and the question was not asking for an itemized list of cases. It was to set up the point about standards of proof and judicial instructions.
You don't understand his point because you don't understand your own post.

You begin by talking about your macro view of things and all you do is whine and cry about Google Maps when the article is about voice? How can you have a macro view of things and mention a single app? Try and stay on topic at least?
T-Mobile and Metro pcs merger.
The entire basis for this article is a straw man:

> It’s fairly trivial for me to buy an application and simply stroll over to my friend’s computer, login using my credentials and download the application without much issue.

Sure, but you're not most App Store users. It's absolutely not trivial for most people to do this, but a huge pain in the ass.
The big issue is: The new iPod Touch 5th gen is $300. For a 4" screen. How can they sell the new iPad at even $300? It would have to be $350, minimum. The iPad 2 is still $400, why buy a 7" for $400 when a 10" is $400??

I don't see how Apple is going to price this effectively without cannibalizing their own markets. I guess they could switch up the 5th gen pricing but they JUST announced it, and it would come across as a cheap trick to move the rest of the 4th gens at full price.
Totally off-topic: the "vertical-align: top" on line 30 of your style.css is making any non-bold, non-italic body text get vertically misaligned with neighboring bold or italic text in Chrome 22 on Windows 7.
> We've spent a lot of time working on every aspect of login, so that startups don't have to.

Really? I find this claim to be suspect and very disingenuous. The reason FB spent a lot of time on login was so startups don't have to? It wasn't, say, so your users would be secure ... and then a later realization hit that you could subsume startups into the FB universe by letting them use it?

If FB wanted to solve the login problem so startups don't have to, why not offer a standalone, drop-in login solution that doesn't require devs to hook their apps into FB, to have dev accounts, to get user info from FB, to display the Facebook brand, etc. etc. etc.

> Your job is to build whatever technology differentiates you from your competitors, and make it worlds better than theirs.

Probably best to think that, just like Facebook, every startup's "job" is to take care of their users, protect their information, and deliver a quality experience. And each startup is the only one capable of determining the value of doing it themselves.

> Any time you spend pfutzing with password hashing, building a better password recovery flow, or arguing about how to fail when people type in the wrong password is time you could better spend making a truly wonderful product. Unless you're trying to build a startup that helps people login, any time spent on this is better spent elsewhere.

You really do like taking this just that much too far, don't you? I consider the way startups and applications handle authentication, signup, etc. to be an integral part of how I determine quality of the product. And even though I have a Facebook account, whenever someone makes me go through Facebook, it fucking destroys any semblance of a nice user workflow.

When a startup spends time helping me signup and login to their service, I notice. And when they don't, I typically hear in the back of my head, "Fuck it, just slap Facebook on it. Problem solved."
If you could combine this with a Literate Programming approach like Literate CoffeeScript[1], then the examples in your API documentation could also become the executable tests.

1: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1786
In 1998 I moved to VA for a job as an Account Manager with a web consulting firm. Their business model changed almost immediately and I had to learn how to sell Sun hardware if I wanted to stay employed. Reading Slashdot was an important part of my education into Unix, system administration, and system administrators. That lead to an interest in open source and ultimately to me installing Red Hat at home. Today I am much more comfortable in the FOSS world than I am in the Windows world, and it all started with me reading Slashdot. I finally removed Slashdot from my feed reader last year, when I realized I couldn't remember the last time I clicked through to read a story.

However, I am still waiting for the box of swag I was supposed to get to pass out at the 10th anniversary party that I organized.
The carriers can threaten lawsuits to app providers if they allow the application to work on their network.

Case in point: Google Wallet.
That really depends on how flexible you are as a user. Maybe you cannot get the exact stack of apps that you currently have, but I'm quite sure you can find the same kinds of functionality on both sides of the app store fences.
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Bitcoin follows laws - the laws of mathematics. Which unlike government laws are a lot harder to cheat.
1984 is seemingly the only book everyone has read.

It is really frustrating to see people simplify all economics, (evidence-based) social psychology and proper appraisal of philosophy applied to historical perspectives only to reduce our future to these bizarre extremes.
The only reason people even give 1984 its credibility post Cold-War is that its two chief components, the television and surveillance camera became a reality. This is not to trivialise the presence of surveillance, but honestly, I'm amazed anyone can read it past the hysterical Room 101 bit.
BWN is basically just 1984 told from the bourgeoisie perspective, the specifics are different but both themes are two sides of the same coin.

tl;dr 1984 is the print version of those crackpot websites that are all made in Frontpage, where every other word is formatted differently and there's a maddening tree of stream of consciousness ramblings, some of which lead to nowhere. The whole hoary debate can be summarised as basically one legible paragraph of that.
If you assume efficient markets, yes. Nothing I've seen about the bitcoin market so far would suggest that it's efficient. Low volume, ideological motivations, unstable technologies, few really safe places to store value, etc.
I've been using Waze pretty heavily for almost 3 years, and have only had problems with it very early on, when it didn't have great road connection data.

The fact that I can contribute corrections to the data set makes it a win for me.
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A few points in the interest of fairness:

* Apple began developing the iPhone in 2004 and released it in June 2007.

* Android was founded in 2003 and Google bought the company in 2005. Google and partners announced the Open Handset Alliance in November 2007 and the first Android phone was released in October 2008.

So far, so good. Two companies that did not start out in mobile telephony/computing both began developing products and entering the space around the same time, competing with the existing smartphone manufacturers, particularly RIM and Nokia.

Google's competitive practices have consisted mainly in developing and iterating a solid product, partnering with a variety of hardware providers to develop a large ecosystem and market share, and occasionally releasing flagship devices to raise the state of the art.

Google has borrowed some innovations from its competitors and developed some innovations of its own.

Apple's competitive practices have consisted mainly in developing and iterating a solid product, partnering with developers via an app store to develop a large ecosystem, and maintaining control of the design and manufacture of devices to maintain standards of quality.

Apple has borrowed some innovations from its competitors and developed some innovations of its own.

Apple has also pledged "thermonuclear war" to "destroy Android", launched a patent war of attrition against Android hardware vendors, and is now, apparently, hobbling the functionality of its own device in an attempt to marginalize Google.

There's competition, and then there's anti-competitive behaviour. Apple would do better to stick with the former, since the company is obviously very good at designing, building and marketing highly competitive products.
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Lol. Citation needed. Maybe a graph of inflation or of the dollar devaluing massively against other currencies.
There's a great interview with Patrick Stewart where he talks about his experience acclimating to baldness, I highly recommend it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOK-ZVJMaU
I'd be more apt to try this service if you gave me 5-10 free leads, so I could test and validate the leads are high quality on a small scale. I would imagine that this is sort of a wizard-of-oz setup where you're manually sourcing the leads and you don't want to waste your time, but if you're leads are high quality, I would guess that your conversion rate to paid customer would be high.

On the smallest plan, if 1/50 leads convert, that means each new user costs about $127, and I'd need an LTV of at least $381 to have a sustainable business(3x CAC < LTV for viability of a saas product). That's very different than if your leads convert at 10/50, or $12.70/user.

If I can quickly and cheaply justify that by using your service, my CAC will be less than my other possible channels and also fits into my unit economics, then your service would be much more compelling and I could just dump money into it to acquire new users.
So the question now is, when and how did the lawyer find out about Hogan's failure to disclose...

From Groklaw:

"Were you wondering how Samsung found out about the lawsuit that Hogan failed to mention in voir dire, the litigation between Seagate and Hogan that Samsung dug up? Apple was, as I'll show you.

You wouldn't believe it if it was in a movie script. The lawyer who sued Mr. Hogan on behalf of Seagate back in 1993 is now married to a partner at Quinn Emanuel, the lawyers for Samsung."
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Doesn't the O-Visa allow you to create and run a business?
Short Cycles FTW
Actually what Apple's (relative) size is should have no bearing on whether they have a right to be indignant by a breach of trust.

And I disagree with you about what the balance of power would have been in a hypothetical Apple-Google cooperative partnership. What were Apple's alternatives if Google were to withdraw as a backend services partner--perhaps a direct competitor in phones? That doesn't seem too palatable. Doing their own backend services? How's that working out for Apple today?
It's on codeplex http://z3.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/9823ee3b...
Ah. That is quite a different take, then. If my reading was incorrect, then parent & I certainly are on the same ground.
See also Sisko in Season 1 of Deep Space 9 vs Sisko in Season 5.

Although I'm struggling to think of many more examples of hairless protagonists outside Star Trek.
They could sue you tomorrow, but it would seem unlikely that they would win.

ISPs must surely keep logs of IP addresses -> account holders and make a record of when these are changed. I also assume that content enforcement companies get a hold of these records before deciding to take something to court otherwise they risk looking very foolish.

Of course it is possible that the ISPs record keeping is wrong, and there is also the worry about "3 strikes" type laws which may or may not require any level of evidence beyong a complaint being made. However AFAIK you can't be made to pay damages unless they directly sue you.
Actually, since male-pattern baldness is driven by testosterone (more accurately, a testosterone derivative called DHT), it makes sense that people have evolved to perceive baldness as masculine and dominant. In this case, baldness is a signifier -- a sort of subconscious code -- for a host of other traits that are seen as powerful.
Dependency Injection In JavaScript - Angular JS Style
An article to explain dependency injection and how it applies to JavaScript. Meanwhile throughout the post we do some reflection in JavaScript to accomplish the AngularJS style dependency injection syntax.
>>> "You begin by talking about your macro view of things and all you do is whine and cry about Google Maps when the article is about voice? How can you have a macro view of things and mention a single app? Try and stay on topic at least?"

I am talking about Maps because that is the only thing we have concrete facts on. We have no idea the real reasons the Voice app is not in the App store right now. We simply don't. So I feel it's silly to ascribe motives to something we know nothing about. Obviously, if you have some sort of vendetta against Apple as a company, in a vacuum of information, you will automatically ascribe motives.

I do find it funny that I'm the one "whining" when all I am doing is pointing out is that perhaps the hand-wringing and whining of users about Maps is #1) a touch overwrought and #2 potentially beneficial for users in the long-run. That's all.. And I use the new iOS maps every day and haven't experienced a single problem yet. I'm not saying they don't exist, but living in a large city and using maps to navigate on my bike every day... Nary an issue.
could you please post your findings?